727880. A história de um número

Abstract

This work takes a form rarely encouraged in academic works: the autobiography. Inspired by contemporary and anti-racist debates about the need to rethink academic knowledge and tell other stories, I present my own story before and during the social sciences course at UFSCar. Instead of being guided by a theoretical discussion, I start from my own body to reflect on how structural racism is felt on a daily basis in institutional violence of different types: in the denial of benefits arising from affirmative action policies, in the precariousness and exploitation of labor, in attacks experienced on the streets and in supermarkets, as well as in the many doors that were closed on me. Against a knowledge that traditionally excludes bodies like mine, in this work I produce a counter-colonial movement, whose power rests in the body and memory of someone who never stopped walking.